Mr. Speaker, the interesting thing that is ethanol cannot survive without an 8ยข a litre subsidy and bio-diesel needs no subsidy.
The other thing is that Kyoto is about CO
2
, not air quality. One of the problems with Kyoto is that we could end up doing things to reduce CO
2
that could actually make the air quality worse. With many activities we may find that we are compromising on nitrous oxide, sulphur dioxide and other things because of our attempt to get at the one item, which is CO
2
. We discovered that very fact when we substituted bunker C with coal in boilers. I am also aware of other examples so this is bogus.
If CO
2
dealt with all the pollutants, such as smog and particulate matter, then I might agree with the logic, but it simply does not do that.